1598 – Elbertus Leoninus, Dutch lawyer/politician, dies at about 78
1746 – Lady Grizel Baillie, Scottish songwriter (b. 1665)
1779 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, French painter, dies at 80
1959 – Len Doyle, American actor (Harrington-Mr District Attorney), dies at 66
1973 – Justus Hermann Wetzel, German composer, dies at 94
1984 – Ruth Cummings, actress (Daybreak, Dream of Love), dies at 90
1985 – Burleigh Grimes, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1931 St. Louis Cardinals; NL wins leader 1921, 28; NL strikeout leader 1921 Brooklyn Robins, Pittsburgh Pirates), dies at 92
1993 – Prof Wolfgang Paul, German physicist (Nobel 1989), dies at 80
1997 – Eliot Daniel, American composer (I Love Lucy theme), dies at 89
2000 – Werner Klemperer, German-American Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actor (Judgment at Nuremberg; Hogan’s Heroes – “Col. Klink”), dies of cancer at 80
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 5th December 2023
1663 – Severo Bonini, Italian composer and monk, dies at 80
1686 – Nicolas Steno, Danish scientist prominent in anatomy and geology, and later Catholic priest, bishop, and candidate for sainthood, dies at 48
1819 – Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet, lawyer and translator, dies at 69
1916 – Hans Richter, Austrian-Hungarian composer, dies at 73
1974 – Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1909-11, 19), dies at 87
1992 – Hilary Tindall, dies of cancer at 54
1998 – Al Gore, Sr., American politician (b. 1907)
2002 – Roone Arledge, American sports broadcasting executive (President ABC Sports – Monday Night Football; ABC News), dies of prostate cancer at 71
2014 – Luis Herrera de la Fuente, Mexican pianist, conductor (Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, 1954-72), and composer, dies at 90
2022 – Kirstie Alley, American Emmy Award-winning actress (Cheers – “Rebecca”; Look Who’s Talking; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), dies of colon cancer at 71
Famous Deaths for 4th December 2023
811 – Charles The Younger, King the of Franks, son of the Emperor Charlemagne, dies at about 39
1214 – William I “the Lion”, King of Scotland (1165-1214)
1585 – John Willock, Scottish reformer
1676 – Johann Georg Ebeling, German composer, dies at 39
1991 – Alex Graham, Scottish cartoonist who created the comic strip “Fred Basset”, dies at 78
1993 – Frank Sturgis, watergate burglar, dies at 68
2004 – Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano, dies of heart failure at 61
2012 – Jack Brooks, American politician, dies at 89
2016 – Radim Hladík, Czech guitarist (The Blue Effect), dies from lung illness at 69
2021 – Eileen Ash-Whelan, English cricket medium pace bowler (7 WTests, 10 wickets, BB 4/68; Middlesex CC), dies at 110
Famous Deaths for 3rd December 2023
1469 – Piero di Cosimo de’ Medici [Piero the Gouty], Italian ruler of Florence (1464-69), dies at about 53
1491 – Thomas Basin, French historian/bishop of Lisieux, dies
1789 – Claude-Joseph Vernet, French painter, dies at 75
1942 – Arthur Berson, German meteorologist (Balloon flights, Amazon), dies at 83
1949 – Maria Ouspenskaya, Russian stage and film actress (The Wolf Man; King’s Row), and teacher (School of Dramatic Art – New York), dies following a house fire at 73
1984 – Virginia Lacy Jones, American librarian and presidential advisor, dies at 72
1992 – Harry Ellerbe, American actor (House of Usher; Magnetic Monster), dies at 91
1992 – Nureddin Al-Atassi, president of Syria (1966-70), dies
2018 – Philip Bosco, American actor (Trading Places, Lend Me a Tenor), dies at 88
2020 – Alison Lurie, American novelist (Pulitzer Prize – Foreign Affairs), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 2nd December 2023
1828 – Simon Paap, Dutch dwarf (71 cm/28 inches tall) cabaret artist, dies at 39
1888 – Namık Kemal, Turkish writer, journalist and political activist (Young Ottomans), dies at 47
1918 – Margit Kaffka, Hungarian writer, dies in the flu pandemic at 38
1935 – Martha Carey Thomas, American educator, suffragist, linguist and second President of Bryn Mawr College, dies of a coronary occlusion at 78
1935 – State of California uses gas chamber instead of hanging for 1st time: Robert Lee Cannon (29) and Albert Kessel (28) executed for role in Folsom Prison escape attempt resulting in murder of warden and guard (San Quentin State Prison. Marin County)
1981 – Wallace Harrison, American architect (Metropolitan Opera House, United Nations complex), dies at 86
1982 – Giovanni Ferrari, Italian soccer midfielder (44 caps; US Alessandria, Juventus, Internazionale) and manager (Italy 1958–59, 1960–62), dies at 74
1998 – Bob Haggart, American dixieland, swing jazz, and session double bass player, and composer (“What’s New?”), dies at 84
2009 – Foge Fazio, American college football coach (University of Pittsburgh), dies of leukemia at 71
2010 – Ron Santo, American Baseball Hall of Fame third baseman (9 x MLB All Star; 5 x Gold Glove; Chicago Cubs), dies from bladder cancer at 70
Famous Deaths for 1st December 2023
660 – Eligius [Eloy], French patron saint of horses, goldsmiths and metalworkers who as bishop of Tournay-Noyon spent 20 years converting the pagan population of Flanders to Christianity, dies at around 72
1374 – Magnus IV [Magnus Eriksson], king of Norway and Sweden (outlawed slavery), drowns at 58
1736 – Simon van Slingelandt, Dutch grand pensionary (1727-36), dies at 72
1842 – Philip Spencer, American sailor, 1st US naval officer condemned for mutiny, hanged aboard the USS Somers at 19
1960 – Ion Vasilescu, Romanian composer, dies at 57
1987 – James Arthur Baldwin, American writer (Another Country), dies at 63
1997 – Denis G. Barrington, British artist, dies at 67
2007 – Anton Rodgers, British actor (May to December), dies at 74
2009 – Éva Szörényi, Hungarian actress and freedom activist for Hungary, dies at 92
2020 – Maria Itkina, Russian athlete (9 sprint world records, 60m-400m), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 30th November 2023
1765 – George Glas, British merchant and adventurer (b. 1725)
1813 – Friedrich August Baumbach, German composer, dies at 60
1974 – Bert Gordon [Barney Gorodetsky], American comedian, dies at 79
1990 – Norman Cousins, American editor (Saturday Review) and peace activist, dies at 75
1993 – Bob Wolf, agent (New Kids on the Block, Larry Bird), dies
1995 – Randy Walker (AKA Stretch), American musician (b. 1972)
1995 – June Rosemary Thorndycraft, teacher and trade unionist, dies at 66
1997 – Ronald Gulliford, English educationalist (Dean of the Faculty of Education, Birmingham University 1979-81), dies at 76
2003 – Gertrude Ederle, American swimmer (1st female English Channel 1926), dies at 98
2010 – Monty Sunshine, British jazz clarinetist and bandleader (Petite Fleur), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 29th November 2023
1813 – Giambattista Bodoni, Italian typographer (Bodoni), printer and publisher, dies at 73
1952 – Vladimir Ipatieff, Russian-American chemist, dies at 85
1954 – George Robey, English musical theatre actor and comedian, dies at 85
1980 – Dorothy Day, American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert, dies of a heart attack at 83
1991 – Ralph Bellamy, American actor (Rosemary’s Baby, His Girl Friday, Trading Places), dies at 87
1994 – Sviatoslav S. Stravinsky, French-American composer, son of Igor S, dies at 84
1995 – Irene Ighodar, Sierra Leonean doctor and social reformer, dies at 79
2007 – James Barber, Canadian chef and writer (b. 1923)
2008 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (Sydney Opera House), dies at 90
2020 – Viorel Turcu, Romanian soccer midfielder (7 caps; FC Argeș Pitești, Steaua București, FC Olt Scornicești), dies from a heart attack at 60
Famous Deaths for 28th November 2023
1675 – Basil Feilding, 2nd Earl of Denbigh, English Civil War soldier (c. 1608)
1815 – Johann Peter Salomon, composer, dies at 70
1867 – John Drake Sloat, 1st Military Governor of California (Union Navy), dies at 86
1878 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
1880 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa, dies at 43
1915 – Mubarak Al-Sabah “The Great”, Emir of Kuwait (b. 1896)
1960 – Richard Wright, American author (Native Son, Uncle Tom’s Children), dies at 52
1993 – Khaled Moustapha Zir, Palestinian Hamas leader, shot to death at 25
1995 – Brunhilde Hendrix, German relay runner (Olympic silver 1960), dies at 57
2022 – Clarence Gilyard Jr, American actor (Walker, Texas Ranger – “Trivette”; Matlock, 1989-93 – “Conrad”; Die Hard), and educator, dies at 66
Famous Deaths for 27th November 2023
511 – Clovis, king of Salische France, founder of Merovingische, dies at 45
1474 – Guillaume Dufay, French Flemish composer, dies at about 74
1749 – Balthasar Schmid, German composer and printer, dies at 44
1749 – Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, German composer and librettist, dies at 59
1996 – George Ernest Leslie, trade union official, dies at 76
1998 – Barbara Acklin, American soul singer (“Love Makes A Woman”) and songwriter (“HAve You Seen Her”), dies of pneumonia at 55
2006 – Casey Coleman, American sportscaster (b. 1951)
2007 – Cecil Payne, American jazz baritone saxophonist, dies of prostrate cancer at 84
2017 – Bob Seidemann, American photographer and album cover artist (Blind Faith; Jerry Garcia), dies at 75
2021 – Francis Routh, British organist, composer (Sacred Tetralogy), magazine editor (Composer), educator, and music promoter (Redcliffe Festival), dies at 94